GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 TED HUGHES AWARD!

INTERVIEW WITH
STANCE ON DANCE

REVIEW IN THE GUARDIAN

Visitors to Ethiopia often remark on its quality of timelessness. Part of it has to do with the way it was isolated for so long, how steeped it is in tradition. But the real reason time is different here is because in 1582, when the most of the world switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, Ethiopia decided not to. And so sunrise starts at 1 o’clock, Christmas falls in January, and it can successfully advertise 13 months of sunshine in the year.

INTERVIEW WITH LITHUB

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ESSAY FOR MAGNUM PHOTOS: JAN 2019

ESSAY FOR GRANTA: DEC 2018

"Tishani Doshi's third collection, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods (Bloodaxe), chilling conjures an uprising of dead women who refuse to be silent victims of male violence...." Sandeep Parmar

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GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS

TEN QUESTIONS WITH THE HAY FESTIVAL What do you want readers to take away from the collection? There’s light and dark in these poems – decapitated marigold, Patrick Swayze’s perfect bottom, a pack of poor poisoned dogs, gunny bags of love. I want the reader to be able to hold these dichotomies and perhaps to believe that poems can be a way not only of insisting on joy, but reclaiming everything that has been lost. read more

Girls are Coming out of the Woodsmakes it to the Forward Prize's Highly Commended List

William Dalrymple Talks about our Cross-generational friendship in the August 2018 Issue of Vogue

Rita Dove selects "RAIN AT THREE" from Girls are Coming out of the Woods for the NYT MAGAZINE (AUG 30, 2018)

JUNE 2018: GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS FEATURED ON THE GUARDIAN'S HAY PODCAST

May 2018:

Talking about Girls are Coming out of the Woods on BBC's FRONT ROW with Ian Mckellen, Julia Raeside and Tony Nourmand

TISHANI IS FEATURED ON THE MAY COVER OF HARPER'S BAZAAR INDIA WITH TAHMIMA ANAM AND FATIMA BHUTTO

"I struggle against the construct of women writers. I love the sisterhood but it can feel like a ghettoisation. No one says: Look! here’s this wonderful anthology of male writers! So, why should we do it for women? Because there’s something about reading the collective experiences of women together that can be empowering....So we have to make our space. To forge our own ancestries. And when, like Kamala Das, we are criticised for that too-muchness that women writers are accused of—too much menstruation, too much about grandmothers, too many treacherous men—we forge on and make poetry undead. And we’ll do it in whatever fashion we see fit—barefoot and stomping or on the tippie tips of our Jimmy Choos.

AN INTERVIEW WITH SHE THE PEOPLE

I’m either writing poetry or I’m writing prose. Never both at the same time. So, ideas get manipulated into whatever form I happen to be working with. Rarely, an idea can be saved and used differently in both genres. The thing about ideas is that they often strike at inopportune moments and there’s no way of recording them, so they vanish. I used to think ideas that didn’t stay weren’t worth remembering, but at my rate of forgetting, I feel heartbroken about all those lost possibilities.”

AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHALIE HANDALTHE WRITER & THE CITY / MADRAS-CHENNAIQ. What is the most extraordinary detail, one that goes unnoticed by most, of the city?

A. How sneaky it is. If you stay long enough, you realize she has strapped you down with ropes of marigold. She has lulled you into a kind of comfort, so it becomes difficult to leave. She rewards only the faithful. READ MORE

10 writers at the Jaipur Literary Festival on books that changed themin VOGUE“An aunt gave me a battered copy of Neruda’s Selected Poems when I was sixteen and I have carried that book everywhere with me. Even though I think there is huge unevenness in Neruda’s poems I can’t deny that he was the one who led me down the path to poetry.”

SEPTEMBER 2016

I talk to PBS about an old poem "the dream," which was made into a video poem by Babe Elliott, and about houses and gates and fear.